Ian Morrison
@IanDMorrison
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Nonpartisan pluralist & unfettered pedant. Politics major & software developer. Williams Treaties territory. Étudiant de la langue française. #a11y #hoh 🦻🏻
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A majority of my tweets call out Conservative politicians and supporters.
Yet, I am still nonpartisan.
If you don’t think these can both be true, you are conflating nonpartisanship & centrism, expecting argument to moderation, and/or are committing a false dichotomy fallacy.🧵
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To all the unmasked public I interacted with over the past few days: you’re welcome. I had asymp. COVID the whole time & didn’t know it until now. I wore an N95. It was really easy to do. It wasn’t just about protecting myself. To those who couldn’t afford me the same courtesy:🖕
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Approximately 300k people just voted for
@PierrePoilievre
. Sounds like a lot, but it’s 5.2% of conservative voters and 1.1% of eligible voters. Don’t forget this “landslide” is internal to the CPC, and the rest of Canada will have something to say about it in
#elxn45
.
#cdnpoli
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I have a feeling we will soon discover why the
@CPC_HQ
was so vehemently against the
#EmergenciesAct
. The now-mandatory inquiry will
#FollowTheMoney
, and it won’t lead to
#Briane
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Anti-maskers suddenly trust the government. Think about that for a second. Funny how the conspiracy suddenly goes away when they agree. You'd think these would be the first people to say unmasking is a government plot to kill them off.
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“Freedom” is thrown around by populists like there’s some dial they’d just turn up. If freedom were measurable in units, it would be on a scale like Freedom House. Canada has a score of 98%. Not much room left on that dial. If you think 🇨🇦 is not free, you’ve been duped.
#cdnpoli
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I’m just impressed by how many people became virologists, immunologists, and public policy experts in the last few years.
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I challenge anyone to articulate for me a productive thing
@fordnation
has done for Ontario. It has to be substantiated and objectively beneficial. If it is, I will retweet. If it is just rhetoric, or unsubstantiated nonsense, I will reply with an apt
@SchittsCreek
gif.
#onpoli
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@maria_drutska
@paladine
If this guy is a fighter pilot, the west has nothing to worry about.
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Inflation is not caused by government, but rather a lack thereof. It’s caused by unfettered capitalism & greed culture—where a CEO is duty-bound to feed the insatiable shareholder as much as possible. Your high grocery bill is going to record profits, not carbon tax.
#greedflation
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The fact that children must be vaccinated against multiple, nearly eradicated diseases to attend school, but not the one that is causing the ongoing pandemic, is all you need to know about the reckless politicization of public health. Ford buying the antivax vote will cost lives.
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How does “woke” have a negative connotation for so many, when the opposite is literally willfully ignorant? Woke: “alert to injustice in society, especially racism.” So they prefer to ignore injustice and racism is fine? How did such intentional shittiness become so mainstream?
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Yes. Real Canadians don’t mob the duly elected prime minister. They’re intelligent enough to articulate grievances appropriately. Sad that you need to seek validation from these petulant pitchfork patsies to feel like the reporter you’ll never be.
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets chased down the street by a mob in Hamilton, Ontario. Does this look like a leader that has the respect of his people?
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You can’t wave the flag of a country in support of removing its legitimately elected government & leader, while flouting its laws, disrespecting its judicial processes, its monuments, and a majority of its people, while purporting to be savours of something not in need of saving.
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Harper racked up a $45k bill to go to a Yankees game. What’s your point? You want the prime minister to stay in a motel for the Queen’s funeral? Rage farming bullshit.
It’s confirmed.
Justin Trudeau spent $6000 of Canadians’ hard-earned paycheques to galivant around London and stay in the luxurious River Suite at the Corinthia Hotel.
Sign to make him pay it back:
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Just saw two pickup trucks in a row with both a f🍁ck Trudeau flag and an Every Child Matters🪶 flag. Can anyone help make sense of this apparent dichotomy?
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Justified and supported by a majority of Canadians.
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Hey PP lovers: looking forward to hearing the spin you lap up from the CPC today on why he’s blocking a motion to include Russian interference. You’re all about your interference investigations – so what line will they feed you to convince you that certain interference is fine?
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@ColinDMello
One of
@fordnation
’s top donors is a rapid test manufacturer. Your not covering that though, eh?
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So
@MelissaLantsman
is trying to spin the PM’s statement that CPC members stood with people who wave swastikas as some kind of personal attack on her. Let’s make her own words from 4 years ago famous:
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You know what.. no, it wasn’t easy to mask everywhere. I have hearing aids & glasses taking up real estate behind my ears, the last thing I need is N95 straps getting tangled with all that. 👏 I 👏 did 👏 it 👏 anyway. I lip read, but still encourage masking. If I can, you can.
I am hearing impaired & wear hearing aids. There are few who want masks gone more than the community that relies on lip reading. If I can face this challenge and still wear my mask to protect the vulnerable population, then you can. Get over yourself!
#CovidIsNotOver
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You think the one-day failure of a private, for-profit telecom company is bad… wait ‘til you see what Dougie has in store for Ontario’s already-strained healthcare system.
#onpoli
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A Poilievre leadership win is irrelevant if he doesn’t win his seat. The question is: would
@theJagmeetSingh
and the
@NDP
be willing to not run a candidate in
#Carleton
to prevent splitting the left vote?
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@JamieSale
For someone who frequently reminds everyone of how many medals you’ve won, you seem to forget which country that was for.
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I will give $1000 to the 1st person to present demonstrably treasonous, known past actions by
@JustinTrudeau
. Unambiguous treason, by Canadian legal definition, with references to relevant CCC sections.
If you can’t, you have to stop using this word erroneously.
Good luck.
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How are freedom-loving, Charter-citing Conservatives digesting Poilievre’s willingness to be the first PM in history to use the notwithstanding clause to ignore the same civil rights they claim JT took away.
The hypocrisy must be short-circuiting what brain cells they have left.
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@jordanbpeterson
@POTUS
The article literally starts with “Russian *propagandist* has claimed on state Tv…” you headline-skimming rage farmer.
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Parliamentary privilege doesn’t extend to Twitter. You are civilly liable for knowingly false, defamatory statements made here.
#cdnpoli
Hilarious, Justin!
You now say you’re surprised your own govt gave a permit to a company to sell cocaine.
You’re the one decriminalizing cocaine, heroin & illicit fentanyl.
Take responsibility for what you are breaking.
So I can fix it—with more treatment not more poison.
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Win. An. Election. Then.
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Kudos to
@Sflecce
– it takes a special kind of talent to go from puppet to scapegoat in the same day.
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Twitter must abide by the laws of the jurisdictions in which it is used. That is, where content is authored or consumed, not where the data is stored. Eg a tweet that breaks 🇨🇦 hate speech laws, though on servers in the US, if authored or consumed in Canada, is illegal in Canada.
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Exploiting the death of a baby and outright fabricating a connection to bail legislation.
Hate Trudeau all you want, but this unscrupulous degenerate is not a viable alternative.
#cdnpoli
Two wonderful grandparents and a beautiful baby were killed after a criminal - out because of Justin Trudeau's catch-and-release laws - slammed his car into the innocent family while fleeing a robbery.
Common sense Conservatives will stop the crime by bringing jail, not bail,
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Loblaw Companies Ltd. YoY net profit change:
Jun ‘21: ⬆️ 121.9%
Oct ‘21: ⬆️ 22.73%
Dec ‘21: ⬆️ 123.66%
Mar ‘22: ⬆️ 34.96%
So Loblaws was making huge gains, and this is all *after* the cost increase due to carbon pricing that we’re being told to blame for high grocery prices.
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Also, thanks to COVID, I’m in no mood for bullshit right now. Normally I engage with dissenters, critics, even trolls, and probably bots. Today I’m taking a page from
@David_Moscrop
’s book (not his actual book) and you’re getting instantly blocked with no reply.
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It blows my mind that Americans think their system of government is the shining example.
#HouseSpeaker
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If
@AndreaHorwath
and
@StevenDelDuca
commit to forming a coalition government, if necessary, to defeat the Ford in 2022, voters who seek to oust the PCs will have the confidence to vote for the party in their riding most likely to defeat them.
#onpoli
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I am hearing impaired & wear hearing aids. There are few who want masks gone more than the community that relies on lip reading. If I can face this challenge and still wear my mask to protect the vulnerable population, then you can. Get over yourself!
#CovidIsNotOver
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So
#Briane
is a trucker on the side, I guess. 🤷♂️ Confirmed: RCMP only gave "names of leaders and organizers of the protest, and of people whose trucks were part of occupations and blockades." -
@cafreeland
#Brianegate
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Can someone point me to the actual quote/source of the
#TrudeauMustGo
claim that
@JustinTrudeau
called anyone an "extremist who needs to be dealt with". Wondering just how stretched or manipulated this particular phrasing is.
#cdnpoli
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😕 Inflation is at 6%
😧 but grocery inflation is at 10%
🤨 Loblaws quarterly profit is up 10%
🤔
#Westonflation
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So we’re at the unabashedly racist with no consequences stage now? Replace turban with yarmulke or hijab and tell me it’s still just a joke. The only joke here is you,
@brianlilley
. This cool with you,
@TheTorontoSun
?
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@PierrePoilievre
Parliamentary privilege doesn’t extend to Twitter. You are civilly liable for knowingly false, defamatory statements made here.
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I don’t understand how these things are difficult for some:
- I’m symptomatic now, I wasn’t before.
- By the time this showed up on a test, I would have been contagious, asymptomatically, for at least a day.
- My mask didn’t fail me, it protected others. Others failed me.
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They use 3-word catchphrases because they think you’re simple. If they work, then you probably are.
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You audacious, opportunistic knave. As someone who is hard of hearing, wears hearing aids, & relies on lip reading, I can attest to the frustration of communicating through masks. I still deal with that frustration to protect my family & community—you shameless panderer.
#cdnpoli
Mask mandates have made communicating even more difficult for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
End all mandates, and legalize smiling once again.
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Hey convoy supporters: it was never about freedom. It was about interfering with an elected government. Before it was the Canada Unity MoU, now it’s this. This is terrorism and sedition, the
@OttawaPolice
and
@rcmpgrcpolice
will treat it as such.
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@PierrePoilievre
Parliamentary privilege doesn’t extend to Twitter. You are civilly liable for knowingly false, defamatory statements made here.
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PP immediately called the
#PeaceBridge
incident a terrorist attack with no evidence, and in the same breath spun it into a JT failure. It was in fact not a terrorist attack, and was on the American side.
Nothing but unscrupulous, opportunistic, and desperate Trumpian rhetoric.
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This seems like a legitimate way to handle ballots to choose the potential next PM. /s Are they counted in the back of a pickup truck? Also, how does he know what all the ballots say? The
@CPC_HQ
becomes more farcical every day.
Long weekend haul. Picked up last minute balllots. The support for
@PierrePoilievre
is unreal!
#StrongerTogether
#pierre4pm
#yyCFL
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This is an attack on the media, and all Canadian media should condemn it and boycott Twitter. Doing nothing while someone is being attacked, just because you’re not being attacked or, worse, because it benefits you, is wrong. This is a dangerous precedent. Share if you agree.
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@PierrePoilievre
"Socialist coalition power pact", or the majority of an elected parliament in a democracy. 🤔
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Awhile back
@MelissaLantsman
blocked me for calling her a mini PP. I mean, she’s been copying his brand of rage-farming populism *and* his hair cut for awhile, but now she gets to be next to him like Mini-Me. They have matching chairs and everything.
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Says something about you if you can’t wrap your head around testing without symptoms. That *you* have to be sick before you bother. I’ve been doing it before seeing certain people since tests were available. It really takes no effort to be considerate.
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How is it that the ostensibly “fiscally responsible” conservative governments – making up the majority of the provinces – end up being the most devoid of accountability, and yet the most demanding of unconditional handouts?
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I for one will not be supporting restaurants that allow unvaccinated patrons – whether it’s their fault or not. Anyone else?
Trust me, I wanted to make up for the last 2 years and support my local restaurants. Not going too happen now. Thanks,
@fordnation
.
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@BowersWrites
Welcome! Just don’t attach the flag to your car. It means something else at the moment. 😬
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Loblaws just posted a half-billion in *quarterly* profit. To the muppets who've been falling for tax-cut rhetoric since the dawn of politics: you're being played. The intellectual vacuum of your willful ignorance is prime space for derivative, facile beliefs like this to move in.
Axe Trudeau's tax. Bring home lower prices.
Join the movement in Sault Ste. Marie:
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Call her bluff. If this is a lie,
@ABDanielleSmith
should sue
@CBCNews
, and (you’d think) every conservative in the country should agree. But she won’t, because it’s not a lie. It’s a desperate scramble to shift blame and save face… again.
#CallHerBluff
#ableg
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Did you know MPs cannot be held liable for defamatory statements, even ones they know are false, because of the defence of absolute privilege? They can literally accuse someone of doing cocaine to discredit them, like Harper did, and the court will just say 🤷🏼♂️ that’s politics.
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People waiving the
@RightsOfCanada
at cops: what outcome are you anticipating here? Do you expect them say “Hey you’re right – sorry about that. Carry on.”? Charter challenges are made in court, not while you’re being arrested.
#cdnpoli
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Twitter is restricting post views because they can’t pay their server bill which is based on bandwidth and compute usage.
#TwitterIsDead
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Rent is the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces. Most Canadians live in conservative provinces. The problem is unbridled, feudalist capitalism touted by the very conservatives complaining about its effects.
Rent hits another record high
While Justin Trudeau and his housing minister were busy doing photo-ops for fake housing announcements, asking rents went up 10% to $2,196/mo for Canadians.
Stop photo ops. Build homes:
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@PierrePoilievre
You pandering snollygoster. Your parliamentary privilege does not extend to Twitter. You are civilly liable for any knowingly false, defamatory statements made here.
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I’m not surprised PP doesn’t know there’s already no tax on groceries. He’s probably never shopped for his own.
BREAKING: Costly coalition of Trudeau-Singh vote to TRIPLE the carbon tax on gas, heat & groceries.
Conservatives vote to cut your taxes.
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So about that free speech. There are so many accounts on here spreading hate and misinformation and this guy is who you suspend,
@Twitter
? F🍁ck right off.
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Trudeau:
can do no wrong
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flawed but a good leader
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must go
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So
@ABDanielleSmith
hid my reply and then blocked me. I’d hate it if this tweet made the rounds anyway despite this. 😉
@ABDanielleSmith
@RachelNotley
@CBCNews
You realize claiming defamation is also defamation. Sue them if you're serious. Let it play out in court.
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@PierrePoilievre
Problems without solutions.
How are you going to fix it without the dreaded:
- gatekeeping
- red tape
- devaluing real estate
- higher taxes
- socialist policies
- handouts
- money printing
- angering homeowners
Ask everyone nicely? Is that your plan? You can’t even do that.
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Conservatives change leaders too often, and the NDP don’t change them often enough.
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Trudeau never called you an “extremist that needs to be dealt with”… but I sure did.
#AntivaxxersMustGo
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@jordanbpeterson
@theJagmeetSingh
Looks like
@theJagmeetSingh
called out
@jordanbpeterson
’s 3 favourite things.
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Twitter has become a childish joke, and I will not support Goebbelsian Lügenpresse propaganda. I’m cancelling my
@TwitterBlue
subscription, and I’m boycotting any advertisers I see on this app. Anyone who funds this billionaire autocrat condones this inane & dangerous behaviour.
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While you’re looking up treason, probably for the first time, be sure to take note of 46.2(a) “Every one commits treason who, in Canada, uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;”, lest you be caught in a “peaceful protest”.
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@ABDanielleSmith
@RachelNotley
@CBCNews
You realize claiming defamation is also defamation. Sue them if you're serious. Let it play out in court.
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@elonmusk
Are you going to put an “American owned” label on National Post and Toronto Sun?
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@elonmusk
Journalism is a profession. It’s something you get a degree in. You can’t just give anyone a Twitter account, call them a journalist and take a vote on the truth. The truth is objective. You have a serious problem with argument to moderation.
Widespread verification will democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people
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Equating riots in China to the
#FreedumbConvoy
is profoundly ignorant. If the freedumb fighters experienced a Chinese lockdown they’d pee their pants. The fact that they traveled freely across the country to occupy their capital for weeks is proof these things are not the same.
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I love that the person who exposed these MPs for being fully aware that they were meeting with a right-wing extremist was the extremist herself. *Chef’s kiss*
Not sure what’s worse: that Conservative parliamentarians had dinner with with a known fascist, or that they had dinner with someone without knowing anything about them.
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If this is true, holy shit
BREAKING - Global News & Sam Cooper in
SERIOUS SERIOUS SERIOUS trouble this AM
Whoever they spoke to at CSIS got the translation WRONG in Han Dong Story
Dong said "Release IMMEDIATELY"
CSIS thought they heard "Release DELAY"
"Immediately" & "Delay" sound SAME In Mandarin
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Republicans gave tours of the capitol building to rioters the day before they stormed it. Conservative MPs just gave a tour of parliament to convoy organizers.
#cdnpoli
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@ParrettJim
It’s really not a lot of effort to prevent everything from mild misery through to death for others.
/s Oh you mean I have to put this fabric on my face briefly? I’d rather take the chance that you might suffer or die than be slightly uncomfortable for a minute. /s
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Don’t block antivaxxers and RWNJs. Instead, add them to a list called “Attention CSIS & RCMP”.
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🇨🇦 Day facts: The Charter
@RightsOfCanada
protects our right to expression only up to the point where it begins to harm others. This crucial threshold doesn’t exist in certain other constitutions, it’s one of many things that sets us apart, and it makes 🇨🇦 a better place.
I have made some people very angry today because I have said hate speech isn't protected. It's sad to me that some people feel they should have the right to harm others.
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So far nobody has provided a quote where he says “extremist” or “…dealt with”. For those confused, a quote has to be words that were actually said or written, and they have to take place outside of your imagination.
Can someone point me to the actual quote/source of the
#TrudeauMustGo
claim that
@JustinTrudeau
called anyone an "extremist who needs to be dealt with". Wondering just how stretched or manipulated this particular phrasing is.
#cdnpoli
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@PierrePoilievre
“Local gatekeepers” are the federal government’s responsibility how?
You know who controls that stuff? Provinces. Predominantly-conservative-led provinces.
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@Lunatas5
@JustinTrudeau
The interview is in French, and he doesn’t call anyone extremist here, the host does. He is referring to a small group of anti-vaxxers.
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@TheoFleury14
* There are far worse ideas (listening to you being one)
* Decriminalizing ≠ legalizing
* There's ample proof of it helping in other countries
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Terrorists announce they’re on their way to the capital. Will news outlets actually cover it for what it is (definition of terrorism below).
@CBCNews
@CTVNews
@GlobalNational
@CityNewsOttawa
@TorontoStar
@globeandmail
** Retweet & tag more—maybe they’ll pay attention.
Terrorism definition (relevant parts): “… an act … for a political … or ideological purpose … with the intention of compelling a person [or] a government … to do or to refrain from doing any act … and includes a … threat to commit any such act.” Crim. Code 83.01(1)(b)
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Seditionist walks, lawyer gets arrested. Welcome to
@fordnation
. Still too good to vote strategically?
I have nothing to add to these photos. Draw your own conclusions.
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Can we get one journalist/public figure to call this what it is and encourage colleagues to use “domestic terrorist group” instead of “freedom convoy”? They’re threatening disruption until the PM steps down. In writing. It’s terrorism by definition.
@acoyne
?
@ItsDeanBlundell
?
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@AlanRMacLeod
1980s: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, kids
*boomers drive the prices of everything through the roof, but at least their $80k exurban bungalow is now going for $1.2m*
2023: Skip breakfast if you can’t afford it, lazy millennials.
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